International Comparative Social Studies Honour Consciousness, Religion and Gender

This book develops an understanding towards women’s experiences of honour in the East and the West, examining comparatively Brazilian and Pakistani migrant women’s lived experiences of honour consciousness, and how its gendered dimensions are manifested among these women in Australia. The book explains how honour consciousness shapes the lives of Brazilian and Pakistani women in their countries of origin, and the relationship between honour, religion and gender highlighting the question: is honour consciousness experienced differently by men and women? In this book, I explore how lived experiences of honour consciousness and religion in Brazil and Pakistan are hybridised and operate on a spectrum and are manifested through gender power relations and demonstrated through “moderate” and “extreme” notions of honour consciousness, and how these are transmitted to Australia. These concepts give a new epistemological perspective to the use of Hegel and Foucault within gender studies.